Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!i2unix!inria!laas!ralph From: ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: GNU (as it applies to the ST), TeX Message-ID: Date: 7 Jan 91 16:17:57 GMT References: <37142@cup.portal.com> <2789@atari.UUCP> <9784@orca.wv.tek.com> <3781@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> <37621@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@laas.laas.fr Distribution: comp Organization: LAAS-CNRS France Lines: 47 In-reply-to: Yonderboy@cup.portal.com's message of 6 Jan 91 00:34:43 GMT In article <37621@cup.portal.com> Yonderboy@cup.portal.com (Christopher Lee Russell) writes: | I too am having trouble sorting thru all of this stuff, and they are huge | files -- therefore trail and error is a real *pain*. Yes it IS big! | Anyways, I have recently been trying to figure out how I might be able to | play around with TeX on my ST. Will I be able to do this with only 1Meg? | Also, how much HD space? Which archives do I need? I have managed to run LaTeX.TTP on my 1040 ST w/o any problems. I do not know how large a document it could handle when all ACCs are removed. | The main utilitarian reason I would like to get TeX working is so that I | could print out the UniTerm docs. Is there a "easy" way to print | these out (I.E. a utility that just prints and nothing else?) Also I am | using a cheap old dot matrix printer (SG-10).. The Uniterm docs come out quite nicely, especially if you can get them to a Laser printer. I haven't yet tried DVIEPSON.TTP which should work with my old FX-80. | I think DVI is a TeX file previewer and MetaFont is a TeX font maker, is this | correct? I haven't been able to get any of this stuff to run correctly yet.. TeX transforms a .TEX file to a .DVI (DeVice Independant) file. The DVI file can then be viewded with DVIST, or SHOWDVI, or printed with DVIEPSON, etc. If you have access to a Unix box with TeX, then you can upload the DVI file and print it there. MetaFont is the TeX font maker. There are also many little font conversion programs such as PXLTOPK, PKTOGF, GFTOPK, etc. Some device drivers only accept one kind of font file: GF is Generic Font, PXL is the wasteful pixel Font format, and PK is the PacKed format. | .......thanks ahead of time.... yonderboy@cup.portal.com By the way, cup.portal.com does not seem to be known from the .COM domain. I believe that it was rejected by Sun.COM's mailer. -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU =============================================================================== Proud new owner of a Mega 4 ST. What should I do with my *small* SH204 drive?